A Big Project for a Big Day

I started scrapbooking the year after my husband and I were married. I always wanted to get around to putting together our wedding album, but the consultants always recommend to start with current pictures and move forward, only working on past photos when you're caught up or working on a special project.

I always said I'd get the wedding album done before our 10th anniversary. I now have 3 days.

I started working on it a few weeks ago, and I have a good beginning. This album will feature all the candid shots I have... when we got engaged, bridal showers, the rehearsal, the wedding, the reception and the honeymoon. It's going to be a big project - I definitely won't be done by Thursday.

But there's nothing wrong with giving ourselves deadlines. I have another all-day scrapbooking event in May, where I'll get a lot more of it done... and at least I can see it coming together, which just gives me incentive to finish it!

I do have to say, I had a really hard time starting it. I wanted this one to be really good and so I was actually nervous about what each page was going to look like. I wanted there to be a theme to it, so it wasn't a hodgepodge of colors and styles. But all this did was slow me down. In the end, I already have a style and there's really no way around it. That's what makes it unique and what makes it mine... and what makes it homemade. It doesn't have to look perfect, it just has to be made by me, with love.

Happy 10th anniversary, sweetie!

My Family Album

Here's some things that have happened in the last month, which will be included in my family album:

We went to Sunriver for Spring Break. The girls were sooo sick the whole time. They were there 5 days, and this is their only venture outside. They wanted to play in the snow so badly, but they were too sick to get off the couch and get out there. Even this day, after less than an hour, they asked to come back in to lay down. They MUST have been sick!


One of my best friends from high school had a baby girl last month. This is an adorable picture of her 6-1/2 year old son, who can't get enough of his new baby sister, putting on a puppet show for her. She loves it!


My only biological uncle lives in Tenerife, Spain. He comes to the states to visit family every 2-3 years, so it's always a big deal when he's here. We always have a family reunion with my uncle and my mom (who are siblings) and all the kids and grandkids. They are very proud that between the two of them, they have 11 grandchildren. Here they are, ages 1-1/2 to 12.

Nothing poetic to write about, just sharing the everyday events in our lives that can easily work their way into one of your albums. I just explained each one in a few sentences and all of a sudden the pictures are much more interesting.

What are you taking pictures of this month?